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How Elastic Infosec Optimizes Defend for Cost and Performance
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How Elastic Infosec Optimizes Defend for Cost and Performance

This article details the internal Elastic Infosec team's process to optimize our endpoint data collection using Event Filtering and Advanced Policy Settings in Elastic Defend.

Aaron Jewitt
From Hypothesis to Action: Proactive Threat Hunting with Elastic Security
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From Hypothesis to Action: Proactive Threat Hunting with Elastic Security

Elastic Security is designed to enable hypothesis-driven threat hunting at speed and scale. By unifying security telemetry and enabling analytics across clusters, threat hunters can ask complex questions across all their data, correlate signals, and validate hypotheses quickly without manual data stitching.

Paul Ewing
Automating detection tuning requests with Kibana cases
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Automating detection tuning requests with Kibana cases

Learn how to automate detection rule tuning requests in Elastic Security. This guide shows how to add custom fields to Cases, create a rule to detect tuning needs, and use a webhook to create a frictionless feedback loop between analysts and detection engineers.

Aaron Jewitt
TOR Exit Node Monitoring Overview
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TOR Exit Node Monitoring Overview

Learn how to monitor your enterprise for TOR exit node activity.

Peter Titov
Time-to-Patch Metrics: A Survival Analysis Approach Using Qualys and Elastic
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Time-to-Patch Metrics: A Survival Analysis Approach Using Qualys and Elastic

In this article, we describe how we applied survival analysis to vulnerability management (VM) data from Qualys VMDR, using the Elastic Stack.

Laura Voicu
Agentic Frameworks Summary
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Agentic Frameworks Summary

Agentic systems require security teams to balance autonomy with alignment, ensuring that AI agents can act independently while remaining goal-consistent and controllable .

Mika Ayenson
How AI and contextual search enhance defence cybersecurity
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How AI and contextual search enhance defence cybersecurity

Contextual search brings clarity, speed, and insight to defence security teams

Crossley McEwen
Microsoft Entra ID OAuth Phishing and Detections
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Microsoft Entra ID OAuth Phishing and Detections

This article explores OAuth phishing and token-based abuse in Microsoft Entra ID. Through emulation and analysis of tokens, scope, and device behavior during sign-in activity, we surface high-fidelity signals defenders can use to detect and hunt for OAuth misuse.

Terrance DeJesus
Elastic and Keep join forces to help users manage alerts and automate workflows
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Elastic and Keep join forces to help users manage alerts and automate workflows

Elastic announces the acquisition of Keep Alerting

Ken Exner
Elastic changes the SIEM game with AI-driven security analytics
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Elastic changes the SIEM game with AI-driven security analytics

Learn more about Elastic's AI-driven security analytics

Santosh Krishnan
How to achieve full-spectrum financial risk detection with AI and unified data
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How to achieve full-spectrum financial risk detection with AI and unified data

Financial services can’t rely on manual review alone. Discover how unified data and explainable AI are helping firms detect risk, reduce cost, and stay ahead of evolving regulations.

Kelly Manrique
WinVisor – A hypervisor-based emulator for Windows x64 user-mode executables
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WinVisor – A hypervisor-based emulator for Windows x64 user-mode executables

WinVisor is a hypervisor-based emulator for Windows x64 user-mode executables that leverages the Windows Hypervisor Platform API to provide a virtualized environment for logging syscalls and enabling memory introspection.

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